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Informationen zum Autor About the editor ERIC UDD is President of Blue Road Research, Inc., a company hefounded in 1993 to develop fiber optic sensor and smart materialsand structure technology. Prior to establishing Blue Road Research,he was Staff Senior Manager and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in theAdvanced Products and Technology Division of McDonnell DouglasAerospace. Mr. Udd has been responsible for fiber optic sensor andcommunication system design for a series of major research anddevelopment programs. While at McDonnell Douglas from 1977 to 1993,he acted as principal investigator and/or program manager on over20 Department of Defense, commercial and internal research anddevelopment efforts on fiber optic gyros, acoustic sensors andaccelerometers; seismic, strain, temperature and pressure sensors;as well as fiber optic communication systems and the area of fiberoptic smart structures. He has been involved in the area of fiberoptic smart structures since its inception and chaired the firstinternational conference in this area (Fiber Optic Smart Structuresand Skins, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 986, Boston, 1988). Mr. Udd hasapproximately 25 domestic and foreign patents issued or pending onfiber optic technology, has written and or presented over 50papers, and has chaired 17 conferences on fiber optic sensor andsmart structure technology. He is the editor of Fiber OpticSensors: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists, alsoavailable from Wiley. Mr. Udd received his MSE in electro-opticsand applied physics from Princeton University in 1978. Klappentext Recent earthquakes and space program-related news serve as potent reminders of the uses fiber optic technology offers to an increasingly complex world. Like living organisms sensitive to subtle changes in the environment, buildings, structures, and space vehicles can be equipped to sense and react to their surroundings by means of hair-thin glass fiber sensors embedded in structural materials and capable of carrying information and measuring changes in stress and other environmental factors. Data is collected and transmitted to a central location, where the findings are assessed and damage corrected. Fiber Optic Smart Structures pools the expertise of thirty-three leading professionals, many of whom are pioneers in the field, and offers a comprehensive introduction to this fast growing technology. Beginning with a historical overview and a look at the background technology, the book goes on to discuss methods of embedding optical fibers in modern high-strength, lightweight composite materials; ingress and egress of optical fibers; and more specialized application concerns, including use of the Fabry-Perot interferometer and Bragg grating sensors. Lower cost options are considered in light of performance trade-offs, and broad area coverage through single-line stringing of multiple fiber sensors is compared with single and distributed sensor approaches. The last section of the book treats the use of fiber optic smart structures in a wide range of settings. Discussions include applications in environments where high temperature and ultrasonic waves play a role; in the aerospace industry, where changes in the structural integrity of the system demand real-time automatic changes; and a rapidly emerging new direction, earthquake-resistant buildings and, along similar lines, bridges that perform self-diagnostics. The first and only comprehensive professional reference in this important, emerging field, Fiber Optic Smart Structures is a major addition to the libraries of aerospace engineers, mechanical scientists, fiber optics researchers and engineers, architects, and structural engineers. It is also a first-rate graduate-level textbook. The first and only comprehensive reference on this important and emerging field... Fiber Optic Smart Structures is the ultimate resource for engineers, architects, researchers, and anyone wi...
